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Clinical trialNCT00273377CompletedPhase 3Interventional

The Effects of Hypercapnia, Supplemental Oxygen, and Dexamethasone on Surgical Wound Infection

SponsorThe Cleveland ClinicEnrollment2,000Surgery, ColonSurgical Wound Infection
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The investigators will test the hypotheses that mild hypercapnia and supplemental oxygen reduce wound infection risk in patients undergoing colon resection. The investigators will simultaneously test the hypothesis that low-dose dexamethasone (a common treatment for postoperative nausea and vomiting) does not increase infection risk.
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Investigators

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Sites

4 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

Austria
  • University of Vienna

    Vienna, Austria

Ireland
  • Mater Misericordiae Hospital

    Dublin, Ireland

United States
  • Outcomes Research Institute

    Louisville, Kentucky, United States

  • Cleveland Clinic

    Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

Dexamethasone →Placebo
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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
31 May 2002
Primary completion
31 Dec 2007
Completion
31 Dec 2007
Last update posted
29 Jun 2016
Registered enrollment
2,000
Registry id
NCT00273377
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 11 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.